A Few Examples of Recent Non-Litigation Applications of Human Capital Earnings Functions

The following are but a few of the articles found in a search using EconLit, probably the most all-inclusive body of economics and related literature. The search was limited to articles appearing during the last nine years that reference the human capital earnings function in the abstract. Those using that method but not mentioning it in the abstract number in the hundreds.

Blom, A., & Sohnesen, T. (2005). Is formal lifelong learning a profitable investment for all of life? How age, education level and flexibility of provision affect rates of return to adult education in Colombia (Policy Research Paper 3800). World Bank.

Bosworth, B., Furtless, G., & Steuerle, E. (2002). Lifetime earnings patterns, the distribution of future Social Security benefits and the impact of pension reform (Center for Retirement Research Working Paper).

Faruqee, J. (2002, February). Population aging and its macroeconomic implications: A framework for analysis (IMF Working Paper). International Monetary Fund.

Francesconi, M., Sutherland, H., & Zantomio, F. (2011). A comparison of earnings measures from longitudinal and cross-sectional surveys: Evidence from the UK. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 174(2), 297-326.

Merz, J., Bohm, P., & Burgert, D. (2009). Timing and fragmentiation of daily working hours arrangements and income inequality: An earnings treatment effects approach with German time use diaries. International Journal of Time Use Research, 6(2), 200-239.

Salehi-Isfahani, D., Tunali, I., & Assaad, R. (2009) A comparative study of returns to education of urban men in Egypt, Iran, and Turkey. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Economics, Working Papers.

Schady, N. (2001). Convexity and sheepskin effects in the human capital earnings function: Recent evidence for Filipino men (Policy Research Working Paper Series 2566). The World Bank.